Sathnam Sanghera was born in Wolverhampton in 1976. He has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards twice, for his memoir The Boy With The Topknot and his novel Marriage Material. Empireland, his groundbreaking non-fiction book about how imperialism shaped modern Britain was an instant top ten bestseller, a Book of the Year at the National Book Awards, and inspired both the Channel 4 series Empire State of Mind and Sanghera's children's book about the British empire Stolen History. His most recent non-fiction book, Empireworld, was an instant top ten bestseller. He has been a fan of George Michael from the age of eight. He lives in North London.
